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State |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
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 | Accountability |
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| Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
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| Accountability--Reporting Results |
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| Accountability--Rewards |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers |
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| Accountability--School Improvement |
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| Adult Basic Education |
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| Assessment |
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| Assessment--Accommodations |
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| Assessment--End-of-Course |
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| Assessment--Formative/Interim |
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| Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
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| Assessment--Legal Issues |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
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| Attendance |
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| Attendance--Compulsory |
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| Background Checks |
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| Bilingual/ESL |
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| Career/Technical Education |
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| Cheating |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Closings |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research |
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
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| Civic Education |
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| Civic Education--Character Education |
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| Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance |
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| Class Size |
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| Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Arts Education |
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| Curriculum--Drivers Education |
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| Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
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| Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
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| Curriculum--Geography Education |
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| Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling |
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| Curriculum--Mathematics |
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| Curriculum--Multicultural |
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| Curriculum--Physical Education |
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| Curriculum--Science |
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| Curriculum--Sex Education |
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| Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
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| Data-Driven Improvement |
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| Demographics--Enrollments |
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| Desegregation |
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| Economic/Workforce Development |
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| Education Research |
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| Equity |
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| Federal |
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| Finance |
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| Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
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| Finance--District |
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| Finance--Equity |
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| Finance--Facilities |
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| Finance--Funding Formulas |
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| Finance--Litigation |
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| Finance--Local Foundations/Funds |
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| Finance--Lotteries |
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| Finance--Performance Funding |
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| Finance--Private Giving |
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| Finance--Resource Efficiency |
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| Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
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| Finance--Student Fees |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
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| Governance |
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| Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
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| Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
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| Governance--School Boards |
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| Governance--Site-Based Management |
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| Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
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| Health |
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| Health--Child Abuse |
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| Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
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| Health--Suicide Prevention |
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| High School |
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| High School--Advanced Placement |
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| High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
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| High School--Exit Exams |
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| High School--Graduation Requirements |
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| Instructional Approaches--Grading Practices |
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| Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
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| Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
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| Leadership |
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| Leadership--District Superintendent |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation |
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| Middle School |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian |
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| No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
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| No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
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| No Child Left Behind--Choice/Transfer |
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| No Child Left Behind--Consequences for Schools |
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| No Child Left Behind--Report Cards |
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| No Child Left Behind--School Support |
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| No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
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| Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
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| Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
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| P-16 or P-20 |
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| P-3 |
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| P-3 Child Care |
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| P-3 Early Intervention (0-3) |
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| P-3 Ensuring Quality |
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| P-3 Family Involvement |
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| P-3 Finance |
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| P-3 Governance |
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| P-3 Grades 1-3 |
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| P-3 Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Preschool |
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| P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development |
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| Parent/Family |
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| Parent/Family--Parent Rights |
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| Postsecondary |
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| Postsecondary Accountability |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
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| Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Undocumented Immigrants |
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| Postsecondary Faculty |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Compensation |
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| Postsecondary Faculty--Tenure |
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| Postsecondary Finance |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
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| Postsecondary Governance and Structures--Administrative/Leadership Issues |
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 | Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
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| CA | Chaptered by Secretary of State 10/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Chapter No.443, Requires the Postsecondary Education Commission to conduct, or contract to conduct, a review and analysis of community college districts' admission procedures and attrition rates for their 2-years associate degree nursing programs. Requires a report to the Governor and the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the purpose of this legislation.
Title: S.B. 664
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to submit a written report to the Legislature on the feasibility of the development of a model teacher preparation curriculum that would be available to qualified students in each community college district, and the establishment of financial incentives for community college students who wish to become teachers.
Title: A.B. 1241
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Limits the right to employment as a first-year probationary faculty member to persons previously employed as administrators who were not employed pursuant to prescribed types of contracts; provides that community college district governing boards may employ academic employees, including educational administrators, on contract with respect to prescribed projects. (Chapter No.144)
Title: S.B. 838
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 08/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Session Law Number 368., Exempts certain community college activities from the Umstead Act; provides for use of community college personnel or facilities, with the consent of the trustees of that college, in support of private business enterprise located on the college campus of in the college's service area for specific services in support of economic and business development.
Title: S.B. 531
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 07/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Creates College Opportunity Board; provides for the board's membership; directs the board to oversee and adopt rules for Department of State Higher Education, Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development and Department of Student Assistance; provides other provisions relating to higher education in the state.
Title: H.B. 2015
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 06/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Chapter No.18, Authorizes a county board of supervisors to donate or lease any real or personal property that the board declares to be surplus to a school or community college district, a county children and families commission, or a nonprofit corporation organized for the care, teaching, or training of children, developmentally disabled children, or Native Americans.
Title: A.B. 314
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CT | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12
Postsec. | Encourages the development of an articulation agreement between the constituent units of the state system of higher education and independent colleges and universities located in this state.
Title: S.B. 1366
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Clarifies the performance measures on which community colleges are evaluated for the purpose of performance budgeting.
Title: H.B. 438
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| PA | Signed into law 06/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Act No. 35 of 2001., Amends Public School Code. Provides for school districts, national assessment tests, school director relations with districts, management reports, distressed districts, equipment, duty to employ qualified professionals, continuing development, proof of residency, tuition costs, agricultural education, charter school funding, retirement plans, vocational schools, basic education funding formula and other like issues. Requires state department to conduct a study of public schools providing Internet instruction. Allows any community college that was approved as a community college by the state board after January 1, 1990, to be dissolved after a determination by the Secretary of Education that the majority of the education and training programs operated by the college are non-academic in nature.
Title: S.B. 485
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2001 | Postsec. | Relates to the establishment and operation of the Toward Excellence, Access, & Success (TEXAS) Grant II program; provides a grant of money to enable eligible students to attend public two-year institutions of higher learning in this state.
Title: S.B. 1596
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12
Community College
Postsec. | Creates the Utah College of Applied Technology and other regional applied technology colleges in Utah; establishes their governance structure; defines their powers and duties. Each regional applied technology college shall:
(a) offer a post-secondary and extra-secondary applied technology education curriculum;
(b) offer that curriculum at low cost to adult students and at no cost to secondary students
within the college's jurisdiction;
(c) provide applied technology education that will result in:
(i) appropriate licensing, certification, or other evidence of completion of training; and
(ii) qualification for specific employment in business and industry;
(d) offer competency-based associate of applied technology degrees approved by the State
Board of Regents;
(e) develop cooperative agreements with local school districts, other higher education
institutions, businesses, industries, and community and private agencies to maximize the availability
of instructional facilities; and (f) after consulting with local school districts within the geographic area served by the regional applied technology college:
(i) ensure that secondary students in the public education system have access to applied
technology education in the regional applied technology college; and
(ii) prepare and submit an annual report to the Utah College of Applied Technology detailing:
(A) how the applied technology education needs of secondary students within the region are
being met; and
(B) what access secondary students within the region have to programs offered at applied
technology colleges.
(2) A regional applied technology college may offer a competency-based high school diploma
equivalent approved by the State Board of Education in accordance with Section 53A-1-402.
(3) A regional applied technology college may not:
(a) offer courses other than applied technology education;
(b) offer a degree other than a competency-based associate of applied technology degree
approved by the State Board of Regents in accordance with Section 53B-1-103;
(c) provide tenure or academic rank for its instructors; and
(d) participate in intercollegiate athletics.
(4) The mission of a regional applied technology college is limited to applied technology
education and may not expand to include credit-based academic programs typically offered by community colleges or other institutions of higher education.
Title: H.B. 1003A
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2001S1/bills/hbillenr/HB1003.htm
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Relates to community college employee retirement; includes provisions for corrections officers, elected officials, and public safety personnel.
Title: S.B. 1295
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Vetoed 05/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Permits community college district boards to authorize supplemental defined contribution plans.
Title: H.B. 2169
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Vetoed 05/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Creates a joint legislative study committee on community college funding; provides for the committee's membership; provides the committee must examine the operating costs of community colleges, adequacy of current funding arrangement supporting such colleges; requires review of such arrangements in other states; requires the study of articulation issues and to issue findings and recommendations to the Governor and Legislature on or before a certain date.
Title: H.B. 2333
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 05/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Chapter No.9, Enacts the Summer 2001 Energy Efficiency Projects by Community College District program, which would fund the implementation of energy conservation, efficiency, cogeneration, and alternate energy supply sources by community college districts on public property. Requires a community college district to request proposals prior to awarding or entering into a contract, agreement, or lease. Requires the district to award contracts based on the consideration of specified qualifications.
Title: S.B. 31A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IA | Signed into law 05/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Directs the Department of Education to establish a task force to conduct a comprehensive review of the licensing of community college faculty.
Title: S.B. 480
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12
Postsec. | Concerns the state Board of Education; affects the powers and duties thereof; removes accreditation of junior colleges from the oversight of the board.
Title: S.B. 7
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 05/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Session Law Number 112. Modifies the procedure for submitting local budgets to the State Board of Community Colleges for approval. Capital outlay requested funds are to be submitted to the local tax-levying authority. The local tax-levying authority approves or disapproves, and then the board of trustees submits the budget to the State Board of Community Colleges, which may then approve or disapprove that portion requesting state or federal funds.
Title: H.B. 421
Source: North Carolina Legislative Web Site
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| NC | Signed into law 05/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Session Law Number 111. Modifies the audit procedures of community college programs.
Title: H.B. 386
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Signed into law 05/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Allows small business development centers in state universities; extends purposes of centers to include counseling; requires assent of Commissioner for Community College Services and Chancellor of State Board of Higher Education before Economic and Community Development Department may make grant to state university.
Title: H.B. 2342
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Relates to a partnership agreement between the University of Texas-Pan American and the South Texas Community College District to offer the lower-division courses required for students enrolled in a teacher preparation program.
Title: H.B. 1753
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 05/2001 | Postsec. | Relates to modernization and procurement of equipment for workforce development initiative grant programs; addresses improving employer awareness and access to services available through the state's education institutions, providing designated professionals and resources to support workforce education through the state's education institutions, assisting with the modernization and procurement of equipment needed for workforce training programs, increasing the capacity of the state's education institutions to respond rapidly to employer needs for workforce education and training on an ongoing basis through the development of a client-focused, visible point of contact for program development and delivery, service referral and needs assessment, such as a workforce development center; and maximizing the use of available resources for workforce education and training through partnerships with public vocational, technical and adult education centers and private training providers.
Title: H.B. 2898
Source: West Virginia Legislative Web Site
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Allows community colleges to have district-wide election for local board members when division into would not create a voting zone with twenty percent or greater population in any one racial minority.
Title: S.B. 754
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Clarifies the statute governing the collection of teaching certification fees so that it applies to all staff or employees that require certification in order to teach a class at a community college.
Title: H.B. 2316
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Relates to establishment of community college districts.
Title: S.B. 1381
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 04/2001 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Provides a school district may join a Joint Technological Education District (JTED) by holding an election on any prescribed date prior to a certain date; provides that the JTED shall submit a report containing information on enrollments and on the courses that qualify for community college credit or funding.
Title: H.B. 2560
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 04/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Chapter No. 8., Enacts the Summer 2001 Energy Efficiency Projects by Community College Districts program, which would fund the implementation of energy conservation, efficiency, cogeneration, and alternate energy supply sources by community college districts on public property. Requires the Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency to administer the Renewable Energy Loan Guarantee Program. Creates the Mobile Energy Efficiency Brigade to expand the current weatherization, energy-efficiency, and rehabilitation programs.
Title: A.B. 29A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Concerns community colleges; relates to expenditures for scholarships; authorizes the charging of fees. The board of trustees of any community college shall not authorize or permit the expenditure of any public funds, either directly or indirectly, for scholarships for students who reside outside of the community college district. No public funds shall be expended for athletic scholarships (either within or without any community college district).
Title: H.B. 2188
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Modifies the term "institution of higher education" under the Maryland Health and Higher Educational Facilities Authority Act (MHHEFA) to include specified community colleges; authorizes the boards of trustees of community colleges to finance or refinance the costs of specified projects by entering into agreements with MHHEFA.
Title: S.B. 588
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Clarifies which institutions need legislative authorization to become a community college; reduces the amount of local support required to convert an existing institution to an independent community college.
Title: S.B. 476
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site
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| IL | Signed into law 03/2001 | Postsec.
Community College | Public Act No. 92-01., Amends the Public Community College Act; provides that division of community college district No. 522 into trustee districts in the year following each biennial census shall be completed and approved in that year; provides that the four-year and six-year successive terms of trustees, as determined at the time the division is approved, begins in 2003 and every 10 years thereafter.
Title: H.B. 258
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
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| Postsecondary Online Instruction |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Access |
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| Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
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| Postsecondary Students--Disabled |
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| Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
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| Private Schools |
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| Privatization |
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| Promotion/Retention |
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| Public Involvement |
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| Reading/Literacy |
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| Religion |
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| Religion--Prayer/Meditation |
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| Rural |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Day/Class Length |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School |
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| Scheduling/School Calendar--Year |
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| School Safety |
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| School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
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| School Safety--Corporal Punishment |
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| School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
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| School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
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| School Safety--Special Education |
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| School Safety--Uniforms/Dress Codes |
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| School/District Structure/Operations |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Libraries |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--School Size |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Shared Services |
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| School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
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| Special Education |
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| Special Education--Finance |
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| Special Education--Inclusion (Mainstreaming) |
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| Special Education--Placement |
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| Special Education--Transition |
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| Special Populations--Corrections Education |
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| Standards |
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| Standards--Implementation |
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| State Longitudinal Data Systems |
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| State Policymaking |
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| Student Achievement |
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| Student Achievement--Closing the Achievement Gap |
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| Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
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| Student Supports--Mentoring/Tutoring |
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| Student Supports--Remediation |
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| Students |
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| Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
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| Students--Records/Rights |
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| Teaching Quality |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Assignment |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--State Prof. Standards Bds. |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Substitute Teachers |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
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| Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
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| Teaching Quality--Preparation |
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| Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
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| Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights |
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| Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
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| Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
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| Technology |
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| Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
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| Technology--Equitable Access |
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| Technology--Funding Issues |
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| Technology--Teacher/Faculty Training |
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| Textbooks and Open Source |
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| Urban |
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